America's Defense Meltdown

2 Dec 2008

Our good friend Winslow Wheeler and his colleagues at the Center for Defense Information have just released a new book examining the jacked up policies that govern the Pentagon's spending plans and proposing new alternatives to the current array of programs and strategic concepts.

I haven't even gotten close to decoding the work, but our boy Steve Trimble over at the DEW Line blog pulled this gem from the tome.

Pierre Sprey -- father of the A-10, co-father of the F-16 and ardent F-22/F-35 critic -- has teamed up with ex-Vietnam fighter jock Col Robert Dilger to propose a fascinating vision for an "effectiveness-based" airpower fleet. (Read more here, pp 159-162)